Time had changed the magical to mundane

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

Put fourth your best effort in whatever you do...it may be your one and only shot.

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world

He felt like normal. Filled with anxiety, dread, sure. But even that wasn't unusual...

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was

The lucky person passes for a genius.

You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.

I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.